Civil Rights Movement: Timeline of Significant Events, 1954 – 1965
March 7, 1965
March 25, 1965
August 6, 1965
Marchers protesting unfair voting laws are attacked in Selma, Alabama after crossing over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Thirty thousand people gather in front of the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama to protest unfair voting laws.
The Voting Rights Act is signed into law.